November ^5, 1916 



HORTICULTURE 



697 



riety, Richmond; color, yellow; Jap. 

 Inc.; points com. 86. At Chicago, Nov. 

 12; name of variety, No. 92; colov, yel- 

 low; Inc.; points com. 90. Name ot 

 variety. No. 69; color, yellow; Inc.; 

 points com. 83. 



At Philadelphia, Nov. S. by Chas. H. 

 Totty. Madison, N. ,T. name of variety, 

 Louisa Poikett: color, white; .Jap. Inc.; 

 points com. S8, ex. SS. Name of varie- 

 ty. \V. H. Waite; color, bronze; Jap. 

 Inc.; points com. 90. ex. 89. Name of 

 variety. Golden Champion ; color, deep 

 yellow, slightly tinged with bronze; 

 Jap. Inc.; points com. 87, ex. 89. By 

 G. A. Lotze, Glen Burnie, Md.; name 

 ot variety. No. 3; color, lemon yellow; 

 Jap. Inc., points com. 89. By Manus 

 Curran, gardener to Mrs. E. M. Home, 

 Sewickley, Pa., name of variety. No. 

 20; color, Ii,s:ht bronze; single, points 

 single. 88. 



At Chicago. Nov. 12, by James Liv- 

 ingston, Milwaukee, Wis.; name of va- 

 riety. No. 9; color, yellow, anemone, 

 points anemone 89. By Mt. Green- 

 wood Cemetery Asso., Morgan Park, 

 Chicago; name of variety, Hilda Can- 

 ning, color, bronze; pompon; points, 

 pompon, 92. 



Chas. W. Johxson, Secy. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



At the annual election, November IS, 

 in Horticultural Hall, Boston, the Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society chose 

 the following-named to hold office dur- 

 ing the coming year: 



President, Richard M. Saltonstall; 

 vice-president, Nathaniel T. Kidder: 

 trustees, three years, Stephen M. Weld, 

 Ernest B. Dane. Edwin S. Webster, 

 Andrew W. Preston: nominating com- 

 mittee, Marcellus A. Patten. William 

 Sim, Nathaniel T. Kidder, John K. M. 

 L. Parquhar, William Down.s. 



Mr. Saltonstall presided over the 

 meeting durin.g which he announced 

 the appropriation by the trustees of 

 the sum of $8,500 to be distributed in 

 prizes to competitors in the Horticul- 

 tural Society's exhibitions, and the 

 sum of $3.50 for children's prizes ex- 

 clusively. There was no reading of 

 annual reports. That is left for the 

 meeting of the society in January. 



CHICAGO FLORISTS' CLUB 

 On account of the Illinois State 

 Florists' Association the Club meet- 

 ing was held Nov. 16. one week later 

 than usual. Nomination of officers 

 which was the principal business re- 

 sulted as follows: For president. Wm. 

 H. Araling and Fred Lautenschlager; 

 vice-president. Paul Klingsporn and 

 Emil Reichling: treasurer. Michael 

 Barker and O. Amling; secretary. Guy 

 French and AUie Zech; trustees. A. 

 Henderson and A. Jurgens. Mr Lau- 

 tenschlarger has since written a per- 

 sonal letter to his friends in the trade, 

 most heartily endorsing the nomina- 

 tion of Wm. H. Amling as president 

 and requesting that he be made the 

 unanimous choice of the club. 



The American Dahlia Society execu- 

 tive committee held a meeting on Nov. 

 8 and found everything working very 

 favorably for a successful year. 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 

 ASSOCIATION. 

 Thursday, November 16, a raw, cold 

 day, the first touch of winter to visit 

 this section, did not deter thirty good 

 men and true from meeting at the 

 greenhouses of Elmer Weaver and 

 taking automobiles for an afternoon 

 visiting trip. 



At Elmer Weaver's we found a large 

 house devoted to mignonette, calen- 

 dula and sweet peas with a few plants 

 of a new tomato called Napoleon, 

 which had without any artificial fer- 

 tilization or special attention in any 

 form «nough fruit on one plant to 

 make half a bushel of good, medium- 

 sized tomatoes when ripe. Of the 

 newer carnations he was trying out 

 Nancy and Alice with the odds on 

 Nancy, but neither quite in the race 

 with Shipreme. Belle Washbuni, Avi- 

 ator and Nebraska were the scarlets 

 with Nebraska in the lead. Aviator a 

 good se: ond, and Washburn ]ilugging 

 along w:th a possibility of winning out 

 before the end of the season. Alice 

 Coombs has not shown any commer- 

 cial supremecy as yet, but from the 

 looks of the stock it is not so much 

 the fault of the variety as the condi- 

 tion or health of the cuttings dissemi- 

 nated last spring. Akehurst. of which 

 there are several beds at this estab- 

 lishment, came near being thrown 

 out as worthless the year after its in- 

 troduction for the same reason but to- 

 day quite a number of growers have 

 it and consider it as one of their lead- 

 ing varieties. Theo shows some possi- 

 bilities as a medium-sized commercial 

 pink and a new white of Mr. Weaver's 

 own is well worth watching. ^ 



Chas. M. Weaver's is the sweet pea 

 establishment of this section and he 

 has them in three stages, a four hun- 

 dred-foot house to each stage. One 

 house is in crop now, another .iust 

 coming in and a third with the glass 

 .iust being put into the sides. The 

 thermometer had been down to 20 in 

 the morning and was down to 30 when 

 we were there. A house of mignon- 

 ette was a revelation to some of the 

 (growers, every head being the same 

 height and the whole house as uni- 

 form as a field of wheat. 



At H. B. Weaver's we found carna- 

 tion Alice doing exceptionally well 

 and his Lord & Burnham iron-frame 

 house doing business right along with 

 prospects of being on the job for his 

 children. 



Jacob Weaver, of Witmer, was the 

 next ston. It might look as if the 

 whole Weaver family were florists, 

 liut. like the Herrs. they are as nu- 

 merous as the leaves on the trees. At 

 this place we found two new carna- 

 tions that have originated with Mr. 

 Weaver, one a yellow that I mention- 

 ed when we were here two years ago. 

 It has 3 slight tinge of pink but not 

 noticeable unless looked for, and in 

 size, substance, stem and habit it cer- 

 tainly is good in its own home town. 

 What it might do if disseminated re- 

 mains to be seen. He has about a 

 Iiundred plants of a dark cerise, or 

 red, of immense size and wonderful 

 keeping qualities, and unless it should 

 develop some fault not yet in evidence 

 it would prove a good one to grow. 

 Cutting across the country we came 

 to the establishment of Elias I.*fevre. 



where Is some of the best carnation 

 soil in the country and the carnallons 

 show it. If Fred Dorner, Jr., would 

 come to this rdace and see Pink Per- 

 fection and White Wonder growing he 

 would have to buy a new hat before 

 going back to Lafayette, for 1 do not 

 think they ever had them as good In 

 that city. 



John Shreiner and A. Denlinger. two 

 of our market growers with places 

 close together, were visited and at 

 Shreiner's we found a general line of 

 stock for market, with a young 

 chicken having a glorious time amoug 

 his chrysanthemums. At Denlinger s 

 a good liart ot the place is devoted to 

 carnations for a winter crop to ship 

 later on. The houses are fllled to 

 overflowing with vegetable and flower 

 plants for the market. One of the 

 party made the assertion that these 

 two men made more money per square 

 foot with their intensive culture than 

 any of the large establishments of the 

 country do. 



Knos Lefevre had a new chrysan- 

 themum that every grower in the 

 party wanted to buy stock of. It is 

 called "Brock" and is a fine large in- 

 curved pink of exceptional color. J. 

 Wade Galey was last on the list. 

 While every place we touched was full 

 of good stock, and especially so in car- 

 nations, this iilace of Galey's was like 

 adding the whipped cream to an al- 

 ready rich dessert. It is a model of 

 neatness and efficiency and his new 

 King construction house, by all odds 

 the 'finest house in the country, part 

 of the credit belonging to the King 

 people and part to Mr. Galey, as he 

 has it completed with heavy cement 

 walks with lattice trellis for the sup- 

 port of his carnation wires and all 

 painted white so that everything 

 from the roof to the trround appeals to 

 the eve and imagination. 

 , Coming back to the city, the regular 

 meeting of the club was called at i.3ii 

 P M. sharn. Rudolph Nagel had on 

 exhibition some f'ne blooms of chrys- 

 anthemums Golden Chadwick. Edwin 

 Seidewitz and Improved Chadwick. 



Harrv K. Rohrer, chairman of the 

 flower "show, reported a success. A 

 committee consisting of David Rose. 

 Lemon Dandis and Thomas Fries was 

 aiipcinted to arrange for the annua 

 banquet in December. Rudolph Nagel 

 then opened a discussion on chrysan- 

 themums which was participated in 

 bv nearly all present, with the result 

 tliat the 'following were all classed as 

 good ones to grow: 



Oconto, Chas. Razer, Autocrat. Bon- 

 naffon. Golden Queen. Yellow Razer. 

 McNeiss. Nonin. Mangold. Lena Ba>. 

 White Chieftain, Patty. In pompons: 

 Pitcher, Harvest Home, Seven Oaks. 

 Mense varieties, Buckingham. Baby 

 sorts. 



In a general discussion on co-opera- 

 tion in the retail trade many good 

 points and suggestions were brought 

 out and it Is to be hoped that some 

 uniformity will develop from it. 



A spring show, purely as an adver- 

 tising proposition, was taken up. but 

 not much enthusiasm was disidayed 

 as the size of the town allows custom- 

 ers to visit the greenhouses without 

 anv trouble, and the advantages to be 

 secured were considered not enough to 

 pay the cost. 

 T. J. Nolan was a visitor. 



Ai.nERT M. Hctk 



